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Peter Ekeh1.Pdf INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE LUGARD LECTURE 2011 © Peter Ekeh and International African Institute 2013 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Basil Davidson and the Culture of the African State1 Peter Ekeh2 Basil Davidson (1914-2010) was introduced to the toils of African scholarship through taxing experiences of practising journalism in South Africa in the post-war formative years of apartheid (see Davidson 1952) and in the even tougher environment of opposition journalism that exposed the most horrendous forms of European oppression of Africans in the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau. By the time Davidson settled down in the late 1950s to serious intellectual analysis of African achievements in statecraft and human civilization, African studies were already dominated by colonial social anthropology with its unabashed imagery of “primitive” Africa. Davidson had few sympathizers and no companions among those of his powerful British countrymen and women who provided definitive standards of what were proper and acceptable in African studies.3 There are three main reasons why I have chosen to hang the argument of this lecture, which seeks to examine the character and culture of the African state, on Basil Davidson's encounter with the meaning of the African state. First, in his African studies Davidson offered compassionate constructs that sharply challenged the moral 1 Delivered on June 15, 2011, at the Fourth European Conference on African Studies, held in Uppsala. 2 State University of New York at Buffalo. 3 Among Basil Davidson’s predecessors in British public affairs with similar passion for freedom for Africans and their societies may be mentioned E. D. Morel (1873-1924) whose Congo Reform Association achieved a great deal in rescuing the misnamed Congo Free State from the horrors of King Leopold II’s misrule in the Congo (see Morel 1904). It is remarkable that Morel used The Black Man’s Burden (1903) as the title of a manuscript in which he sought to refute the claim of Rudyard Kipling’s poem of four years earlier, titled ‘The White Man’s Burden’ (1899), with illustrations from the brutalities borne by Africans in the Congo. The adoption of the same title of The Black Man’s Burden by Basil Davidson (1992), some ninety years later, to discuss a different aspect of Africa’s predicament probably illustrates the kindred spirit of compassion for Africans that E. D. Morel and Basil Davidson so abundantly shared with each other. 1 devaluation of Africans in the concepts and terms employed in colonial scholarship – be it social anthropology, history, literature, or economics. Second, Davidson’s African studies were premised on expansive social and historical realities whose existence was denied by established colonial scholarship on Africa, up to the 1950s. Third, when his expectations of African futures were not realized, Davidson bravely offered reasons as to why Africans are failing in the modern world in sharp contrast to their ancestors’ outstanding achievements of the past. While I wholeheartedly embrace Basil Davidson’s scholarship for confronting the abuses in the major themes of colonial history and colonial social anthropology, I believe that his interpretation of African failures in post-colonial times is inadequate. Permit me to elaborate on these reasons for thus importing Basil Davidson’s scholarship into this Lugard Lecture. Basil Davidson’s Contributions to African Studies and to the Scholarship of the African State It is probably difficult for modern scholars of African affairs to imagine how much colonialism invested in its efforts to belittle the moral worth of Africans who were subject to its rule. In a contemporaneous reaction to what he clearly saw as the moral belittlement of Africans by the intellectual agencies of colonialism, the late Ugandan scholar Okot p'Bitek (1970: 20) once expressed amazement at Western scholarship’s “almost morbid fascination and preoccupation with the `primitive', and the hostile and arrogant language of the philosophers, historians, theologians, and anthropologists. Like the ogres of the tales of northern Uganda, unprovoked, Western scholars seek out peoples living in peace, and heap insults on their heads.” Why would Western Europeans, who had achieved a civilization that is justly reputed to be rational, spend their intellectual capital inventing insults that they “heaped” on innocent distant “peoples living in peace”? The truth of the matter is that these were ideologies that allowed European imperialists to justify their colonization of Africa and to rationalize imperialism’s misdeeds. In his reaction to the insulting language in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe offered a reason for the brashness of these insults that is grounded in European ideologies of imperialism. Achebe sees in these insults the desire -- one might say the need -- in Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe, as a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar, in comparison with which Europe's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest (Achebe 1988: 2). These ideologies of imperialism were ultimately reducible to an article of faith that underlined the work of the intellectual agencies of imperialism. They regarded Africans as humans who were qualitatively different from Europeans and who did not share fully in the human nature that served as the springboard for Europe’s spectacular achievements. That was why it was acceptable to govern colonial Africa in ways that would be objectionable in Europe. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lady 2 Lugard phrased this point rather bluntly in her essay on British administration of Northern Nigeria: The administration of this quarter of the [British] Empire [lying within the tropics] cannot be conducted on the principle of self-government as that phrase is understood by whitemen. It must be more or less in the nature of an autocracy which leaves with rulers full responsibility for the prosperity of the ruled. The administration of India, where this aspect of the question has long been appreciated, is among the successes of which the British people is most justly proud. The work done by England in Egypt is another proof of our capacity for autocratic rule (Lady Lugard 1906: 1). Such an outlook that empowered Lady Lugard’s declaration was still very much rampant and unchallenged when Basil Davidson arrived on the African intellectual scene in the middle of the twentieth century. The moral degradation of Africans and their cultures, with the use of insulting epithets like “primitive” and “simple societies” in the titles of serious publications on Africa, was readily accepted across the entire spectrum of African studies up to the mid-1950s. In the introduction to The Lost Cities of Africa, his first major book on Africa, Davidson (1959: ix) derided those reckless views that held that “these [Africans] . were naturally inferior or else they were ‘children who had still to grow up’; in either case they were manifestly in need of government by others who had grown up.” In a series of provocative book publications, Davidson engaged in what may be called the moral revaluation of Africans and their cultures. Whereas settled colonial scholarship described African peoples as tribes, Davidson named many of them as ‘nation-states.” For acts and activities denigrated by his European colleagues as “tribalism,” Davidson employed the uplifting construct of “nationalism” to depict African political activities in search of their freedom as a people. Whilst colonial administration and colonial social anthropology reduced pre-colonial political entities in Africa to simple “chiefdoms,” Davidson accorded them their rightful term of “kingdoms.” The upgrading of the moral worth of Africans was most forcefully expressed in Davidson’s Black Mother: the years of the African slave trade. Unlike most established Western scholars of the slave trade who regarded it as a natural economic transaction and were pleased to treat the victims of the evil trade as economic goods, Davidson saw the African slave trade as an unjust and irresponsible turn of events in the normal and decent relations between European nations and African peoples and nations over the course of several centuries, following Portuguese explorations in Atlantic Africa. He assessed the slave trade in human terms and weighed its consequences on the scales of human history. Davidson (1961: xiv) regretted “the steady year-by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migration – forced migration – in the history of man.” He was offended by the shameless dehumanization of its victims as hapless slaves abusively regarded by numerous writers as articles of economic exchange. Instead, in full respect for their 3 humanity, Davidson branded them as “captives” of the slave trade. Before the publication of Black Mother in 1961, the slave trade was largely treated as an aspect of European and American international trade which obtained its human commodities from Africa. Basil Davidson added much value to the scholarship of the slave trade by examining its harmful consequences for existing African states and societies. Basil Davidson helped to redirect the course of African studies in a more dramatic way other than through the means of such nuanced moral revaluation of Africans and their cultures. Well up to the 1950s, the view that Africans had their own history -- outside of their contact with Europeans -- was widely and authoritatively discouraged. Colonial social anthropology was adamant in its rejection of such a viewpoint. Its dean, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown of Oxford University, taught his followers that unlike the situation in Europe, "We cannot have a history of African institutions" (Radcliffe-Brown 1950: 2). Dominating the methodology of African studies well up to the 1950s, colonial social anthropology contended that Africans and their cultures were best studied by adopting and adapting the tools of the natural sciences.
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